We’d be interested to know whether your students are resitting Units this summer, or waiting until next year to improve their Unit result, knowing that there is only one resit allowed. Please feed back in a Comment. THANK YOU!

Exciting for some, dull for others – and a rich source of Maths questions for GCSE classes.

Download our very own alternative Alternative Vote referendum. It’s a role play allowing your class to mock up their own referendum, learn about the two different voting systems, and explore the maths behind them. It’s also a bit of fun and we guarantee it will bring a smile to your students’ faces.

Last month we conducted a survey of our subscribers to find out what you really think! After 18 months of blogging, we were curious…

Q. If the blog stopped tomorrow, which of these statements would best describe your attitude? (Tick only one)

Well, that was a relief. No-one ticked the “Happy – all the email updates annoy me” box. We’ll do our best to keep it that way. Thank you for your support.

Q. How long did you read the blog before you subscribed to it? (Tick only one)

This result took us by surprise. We had no idea the decision to subscribe was taken so quickly.

Q. Before you started this survey, who did you think writes and produces the blog? (Tick all that apply)

This response made us smile. We can say definitively that we are Longman, which is part of Pearson Education. Either of those would have been correct, so a majority of you were on the right track. We are not part of AQA and definitely not Nelson Thornes (greatly though we esteem those organisations)!

Q. If we were to cut down the types of activities we were going to provide on the blog to just four, which of the following types would you want to keep? (Tick four only)

Harder to read this slide, so here’s a summary: the most votes went to “GCSE new-style practice questions and papers”. We hear you – we’ll keep them coming and make sure we offer all the support we can through the Summer exam season.

Our topical resources came in as next most popular. Collectively, there were 42 votes for our topical lesson plans and activities relating to:

We’ll keep this stuff coming as far as time and tide allow. For example, to mark the passing of the 500 day milestone and the availability of tickets for sale, we’ll shortly be publishing an Olympics poster.

There was also enthusiasm for the sample pages from our published resources, with 12 votes. Again, we’ll keep these coming. The least votes went to our video resources and news updates on AQA specifications and policy.

We asked you to tell us what other kinds of resources you would like to see. Your answers centred around three types: (i) more exam questions/papers/feedback, (ii) more puzzles, (iii) interactives.

We hear you. We’ll do our best.

Q. What are your other sources of topical resources for use in school? (Tick all that apply)

Space doesn’t allow for all the questions, and we promised to keep all individual responses confidential. But we do want to say a big T H A N K Y O U to everyone who took part. Some of your additional feedback was very encouraging: you made especially kind comments about our Middle sets Student Book, about our Sherlock Holmes competition, and about our other free resources.

Finally, some of you expressed concern that we might start charging for the content on the blog (we asked a few hypothetical question around this). Don’t be, because we won’t.

Our unique G-F Practice Book, also designed to work with the Student Book, and presented as a write-in workbook to allow students to interact directly with the Maths. Click here for a sample.

This just goes to show, as we’ve observed before, that the best things in life are… THREE!

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The S M A L L print: This offer is only open to UK-based Secondary Maths teachers, and is limited to one package (i.e. 3 books) per centre.

Here’s your free classroom poster, with a map of all the London venues and some Maths activities built in. These are at GCSE Grade D/C, and Functional Maths Level 2 – covering ratio, map scales, and distance-speed-time:

Practise some Olympic maths, and help Boris find his bearings... Click to download.

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Are you getting ready to teach the new AQA Maths GCSE spec? If so, this blog is for you. We work for Longman (part of Pearson Education) and we want to share what we're doing, what we find out about what teachers are doing, and hear your views.